Edward Fox
British actor
Aside from family life, which is the ultimate happiness, when I see or hear a great artist.
When were you happiest?
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Death & what remains
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Values & belief
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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Craft & work
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
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Kelsey Grammer
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This morning, surrounded by my children and my wife, Kayte.
Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
My late 20s, writing my third record.
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Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
That I can’t control it.
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